Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...named Judy Holliday stepped into the club to get out of the rain. Holliday got to talking to Gordon and persuaded him to give her and a couple of pals, Adolph Green and Betty Comden, a showcase for a revue of patter borrowed from the likes of No?l Coward. Last week Comden recalled how her musical-comedy career with Green "all started right here, when someone told us we should be paying royalties, and we belatedly realized we had to write our own stuff...
Cabot House. Soprano Ellen Archer andPianist Michael Strauss perform cabaret songs byWeill, Gershwin, Piaf, Coward and Porter. CabotHouse Living Room...
...credit for confessing so openly to them). If he could be unusually tender toward his enemies, he could be unnaturally negligent of his loves. In his championing of the voiceless, the forgotten, the oppressed, he could conceive irrational and implacable prejudices against those he regarded as Established (No?l Coward, say). And sometimes, by his own admission, he could do the right thing for the wrong reasons, refusing to be straight with someone because he lacked the nerve...
...Simpson You scumbag and coward. You should have shot yourself in the Bronco--Coward! Responding to this letter, written by a self-described ``average middle-aged housewife,'' Simpson wrote, ``I want to state unequivocally that I did not commit these horrible crimes.'' He added, in a book published last Friday, that he would have jumped in front of a bullet for his dead ex-wife Nicole--or a train, for that matter. The thin volume, the issue of a fat-figured deal ($1 million), is a brilliant sliver of disingenuousness called I Want to Tell You and subtitled My Response...
...write 10 pages a day. "I will -- and do -- meet that schedule every day," he told Bragg. "My only regret is to die four pages too soon." Sticking a cigarette between fingers crippled by arthritis, then puffing on "this lovely tube of delight," he said he was a physical coward in his youth. But now, dying, "you find out that in fact, at the last, thank God, you're not actually a coward...